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XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

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Re: XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

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Post by sergiosgc »

gtaylor wrote: post #14
ythn wrote: post #3

I've had so many problems with my XPS 13 that I bought in 2016 that I will never buy another one. Killer WiFi card was utter crap, laptop has issues going to sleep and waking up when closing the lid (sometimes it would hang on the the dell screen when trying to wake up and never recover), etc. Purely anecdotal, but a hard pass for me. Lenovo is my new laptop brand of choice.

I went the other direction. Bought a Thinkpad due to how amazing they were in the past. Found that the build quality had gone way down. Was pretty disappointed as this expensive piece of hardware developed cracks on the casing within the first year. Switched to an XPS 15 and have been very happy. Love the build quality, specs are good enough. Battery life is much better even on Linux. YMMV!

Which model? We are looking into buying quite a few, and Thinkpads are the first choice here. We never had problems in the past, but I've been hearing about problems in their mid-range models. I'd like to avoid those, at the very least.

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Post by foodstances »

eliaspro wrote: post #16
foodstances wrote: post #2

Does it still have that awful coil whine?

Quoting Barton George: > We are definitely looking into the coil whine issue, this has senior management visibility, and pursuing several avenues for the current system as well as solutions going forward. Source: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...

That is from June, this is the latest from December:

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...

A motherboard change and a BIOS update (2.4.2) are supposed to lower the noise as much as they can, while still deeming it "working within specification". Users report the 2.4.2 update didn't help much or even made it worse.

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Post by joshmn »

desireco42 wrote: post #19
ascendantlogic wrote: post #11

Only 16 gigs of RAM? Why do companies still hold that limit in 2018? I was hoping for 32 gigs back in 2015.

Not 100% sure but mostly due to battery life, the more ram you have, the more power you use. 32 gigs probably shaves hour or so off the battery (don't know for sure) and that might be the reason.

I'd think that the people who are buying a 32GB variant are probably the people who have their laptop plugged in when utilizing an excess amount of memory.

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Post by maxxxxx »

desireco42 wrote: post #19
ascendantlogic wrote: post #11

Only 16 gigs of RAM? Why do companies still hold that limit in 2018? I was hoping for 32 gigs back in 2015.

Not 100% sure but mostly due to battery life, the more ram you have, the more power you use. 32 gigs probably shaves hour or so off the battery (don't know for sure) and that might be the reason.

I use my laptop almost always with a power supply (either home or office) so I would happily trade some battery life for more RAM.

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Post by FBISurveillance »

IMO, it does not make sense to buy any of those new models: whether it's Dell, HP, or else--before we see models with 32Gb of RAM. It's been told here over and over since 2016 when first Touchbar MacBook got released.

It's 2018 and all of us, including manufacturers, are locked with 16GB of RAM and those upgrades look like a joke. Within last month I noticed myötähäpeä when someone asks me for laptop advice.

Hopefully this situation will make enough professionals pissed off so both them and manufacturers would look into RISC. It's going to get worse before it gets better.

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